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​​Available in stable now Telegram X is readying options to switch emoji styles, display big emojis, and more (Beta updates)
https://www.testingcatalog.com/report/amp/502

The last stable release, version 0.21.7.1154, for Telegram X delivered an enormous amount of notification-related upgrades that you can learn more about from this blog post. Since then, numerous test builds have been made available on the Play Store for signed early adopters, with the most up-to-date one being 0.21.8.1163 at the time of writing this article.
Telegram Beta 5.7.0 with animated stickers support
​​Telegram version 5.7 - new themes, discussion channels, better privacy management, and more
https://www.testingcatalog.com/report/amp/512

It isn't a long time before another Telegram update comes out, yet today we are here with a new build. Version 5.7.0 is available with a generous number of upgrades upon the previous release but still deemed enough for us to do a report about it. 
Telegram beta 5.7.1
​​A plethora of fixes, channel messages in group chats, Hungarian localization, and more in the latest set of Telegram X updates
https://www.testingcatalog.com/report/amp/514

Telegram's second, sort of official, messaging client for Android has received a couple of updates recently. The newest of the bunch is version 0.21.9.1171 RC from June 5th, with the 'RC' moniker which stands for release candidate, meaning that the build is near production ready.
Hi everyone! I apologise for the recent lack of activity but we've encountered some technical and operational issues.
I thought that it will take a bit less time to solve them. At some point, we will handle those and I will be able to give you an update with our next plans. TestingCtalog is still here :)

Going a bit into details, Google changed their authorisation process a bit and we have to keep up with it on the tech side.

Apart from that, I am going to Droidcon Berlin for the next 3 days and I will be posting some updates and pictures to our TestingCatalog social accounts. Stay tuned!
Bot API got an update with some new features.
Forwarded from BotNews
Bot API 4.4 has arrived.

- Added support for animated stickers.
- Added support for default permissions in any groups.
- Added support for descriptions and invite links in basic groups.
- All webhook requests from the Bot API are now coming from the subnets 149.154.160.0/20 and 91.108.4.0/22. Update your configuration if you control inbound access with a firewall.
- The next Bot API update (v.4.5) will allow nested MessageEntity objects, make sure your code can correctly handle such entities.

Full changelog:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#july-29-2019
Telegram beta 5.10.0

- Slow Mode for Group.
Members will be restricted to send one message per specified interval (10s, 30s, 1m, 5m, 15m, or 1h).
- Custom title (up to 16 characters) that will be shown instead of 'owner' or 'admin' for individual admin in a group.
- Tap and hold the send button to send a message without sound (silent notification)
- Animated Emoji
- New attach menu
- Large Emoji toggle on Chat Settings
- Loop Animated Stickers toggle on Chat Settings Β» Stickers and Masks
Forwarded from Telegram News
Telegram is six years old! πŸ₯³

To celebrate, we locked six people in a room and gave them six hours to write this encyclopedia of Telegram (it took 24).

https://telegram.org/blog/6-years
0.21.9.1192 beta

- Animated stickers
- Chat Permissions: control which actions can be performed only by admins or any member
- View Admins & Chat Permissions in any groups
- Added Use Less Data for Calls > While Roaming option
- New sticker sets covers
- Open profile who promoted or restricted specific member
- Chat members join date
- Chat permissions change & poll stop event in Recent Actions
- No Link Preview above input field when corresponding permission is missing
- Prompts when trying to use inline bot, record audio/video message, send GIF/sticker, but corresponding permission is missing
- Blocked input when messages are restricted in the group
- Edit group title, photo and description, when corresponding right is available
- Unified group settings: now there's no visual difference between basic and super groups
- Automatic group upgrade when performing some action that cannot be performed with basic group
- In-app update suggestion
- Screen resolution change support (previously required force closing the app otherwise everything looked bad)
- Notched device support (animation fixes, better fullscreen, etc)
- Removed duplicate status bar when using split screen (this actually was more difficult than it sounds like)
- Better overlay color calculation (transparent backgrounds used for e.g. dates, times, etc above the chat wallpaper)
- Reworked wallpapers logic internally (painfuly migrated to Backgrounds 2.0 API, but for now visually only new wallpapers added)
- Improved default wallpaper switching logic
- Option to embed any wallpaper to custom themes
- High-res thumbnails support
- Built-in thumbnail support: new media should always have low-res thumbnail (no empty placeholders)
- Internal work on video streaming
- and more.
Telegram X got in-app updates

"You will be notified within the app when a new update is available on playstore and you can download it in the background while using the app"
h/t @KeralagramChannel
​​Telegram test TON network supposed to be available since 1st of September. At @buttonwalletbot you can try to connect to the test network and get some test tokens to play with. The test network is mostly needed for developers and it doesn't have a real value. Please be aware.
Apart from that, you can put your hands into TON already and try how it fills. If you are receiving errors - try to connect to the different network in the settings menu.
Telegram X 0.21.11.1198 beta

- Fixed missing sticker suggestions while using emoji suggestions
- Fixed align of icons in settings cells
- Fixed "Have no rights to send a message" while playing game
- Fixed non-circular image preview for documents in link previews
- Fixed missing notifications after using "Erase All Data": after an update is required to either use "Erase All Data" again, or "Drop hidden notification identifiers" in the testing utilities
- Fixed subtitle overlaps on storage cleanup screen
- Fixed duplicate messages when forwarding to "Saved Messages"
- Improved notifications reliability

Updated TDLib

- Improved sorting recent sticker suggestions
- Fixed media needs to be redownloaded after forwarding it
- Fixed "Invalid number" when using t.me/confirmphone links
- Fixed MTProto-proxy links / sharing
- Other bugfixes and improvements